Enticing Douro Cruise, May 22-29, 2026, with Behrens Family Winery

Behrens Family Winery

In 2003 Robin Cooper, a native New Yorker and successful executive recruiter in the world of Wall Street, came to the Napa Valley to work harvest for Behrens Family Winery as an intern and to have a “life experience.” She has remained ever since. In 2006, the owners of the same winery decided it was time to start letting people come to visit and tapped Robin to create a hospitality function for them. Since then, Robin has been the Director of Hospitality and Customer Relations for Behrens Family Winery, representing the critically acclaimed wines of Les Behrens and Lisa Drinkward.

These tiny production red wines produced on Spring Mountain in Napa are sourced from special low yielding vineyard sites from some of the best growers throughout the Napa Valley as well as Sonoma County, which result in a partnership with growers obsessed with producing extremely high-quality fruit.

Join Les Behrens, Lisa Drinkward and Robin on this “Bucket List” trip to Portugal.This once-in-a-lifetime program combines a 4-night land tour, staying three nights in Lisbon and one night in Porto before our 7-night Douro cruise.We’ll see the sights of Lisbon, the mountaintop castles of Sintra, miraculous Fatima, the university city of Coimbra and enjoy a relaxed night in beautiful Porto.This is a relaxed and leisurely introduction to Portugal before boarding our 7-night Douro River cruise aboard the luxurious ship AmaSintra.

After the Douro cruise, there is an optional 3-night post-cruise extension north from Porto into Galicia, the cool climate Spanish province, home to the Basque people and amazing Michelin star restaurants.

This exclusive holiday is dedicated to great food, historic places, fine wines and plentiful sunshine.This website explains nearly everything about this trip. Feel free to share this with any like-minded friends.

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